McCarthyville Frontier Town of Death and Dust
In Montana, McCarthyville rose as a rough frontier city for 18 months. Workers paid in a vast payroll faced blizzards and pneumonia, while a Swede nurse buried bodies at daylight in the snow and a Great Falls doctor tended injured men for a dollar per man per month.
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McCarthyville
Frontier City
Wilchey
Montana
Little Prairie
Missoula County
Eugene McCarthy
Cut Bank
McCarthy
Company
Will Hardy
Great Falls
Beaudin Killers Haunt Montana Town Memoir
A memoir fragment recalls McCarthyville once called toughest town in America. A gunpoint hospital raid, a Swede shot dead, and a brutal murder in 1891 when two Beaudin brothers faced masked killers. The tale contrasts death tolls with a lone birth as coyotes creep through snow.
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McCarthy, Hardy
Mike Conley
Jack Lamey
Hiram Briggs
Ed Fox
McCarthy
Hardy
McCarthyville
Grim Reaper
Cady
Montana
Joe
Pierre Beaudin
Joe Beaudin
Warner
Winner
Legend Traces Giant Springs to Indian Lore
A Blackfeet legend links Giant Springs near Great Falls to a mythic tale of Eagle Feather and Running Fawn. The story explains the spring’s vast waters through a battle with an evil spirit, aided by a magic eagle feather and lasting devotion that seals the spring’s flow.
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Eagle Feather
Running Fawn
The Fight With an Evil Spirit at Black Eagle Spring
The tale describes Eagle Feather and Running Fawn battling a vengeful demon in a river, with the monster defeated and water purified. Black Eagle and Running Fawn are transformed into guardians of the spring, which flows to this day as a testament to undying Indian love.
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Yellowstone
Running Fawn
Minnisosha
Missouri
Eagle Feather
Fawn
le Feather
Fkagle
Helena
Totem
Black Eagle
Ex-State Lawmaker Derry Dies in California at 71
Charles A. Derry, 71, longtime printer and union official with ties to Montana Alaska and Washington, died in California after a yearlong illness. A former Missoula legislator and editor of the Cordova Times, he also served as Alaska delegate to the 1920 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco.
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Charles A. Derry
San Francisco
Labor Clarion
Montana
California
Derry
Spokane Central Labor Council
International Typographical Union
Washington
Oregon
British Columbia
Missoula County
Alaska
Iditarod Pioneer
Cordova
Vessel and boat terms in Scout dialogue
A humorous exchange compares vessel terminology to anatomy and lifeboats. Tenderfoot jokes that a blood vessel is a lifeboat, prompting First Class Scout to agree a vessel can be a lifeboat, highlighting playful wording in a Scout discussion.
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Tenderfoot
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America
Great Northern
Pacific
Lewis and Clark
Joint Committee On Indian Work
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Chicago
Black Eagle Spring
LeBlanc
MacCarthyville
Jim Cummins
Oklahoma
Charlie Hart
al Johnson
Bill Houston
Cummins
Hart
Missoula
Virginia Dwyer
Lydia Pinkham
Defense Savings
Western Insurance Company
B. Richardson
Presid
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